Office folding type-writer cover.



No. 850,289; PATENTED APR. 16, 1907.

I G. BRIGHT. OFFICE FOLDING TYPE WRITER covnn.

7 APPLICATION FILED APR. 9, 1906.

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GEORGE RUSSEL BRIGHT, OF SUTTON, WEST VIRGINIA.

OFFICE FOLDING TYPE-WRITER COVER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 16, 1907.

Application filed April 9,1906. Serial No. 310,733.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE RUssEL BRIGHT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sutton, in the county of BraXton, in the State of West Virginia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Office Folding Type-Writer Covers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to covers for type writers; and the object of the invention is a flexible collapsible cover to take the place of the ordinary metal cover in common use, which is objectionable, as it is usually in the way when not placed upon the machine and furniture is often more or less scarred by the said covers.

This inventions consists of a collapsible accordion-plaited body rectangular in form, which is placed upon the base of the typewriter machine and folds down upon the same and of a dome or cover formed in tWo sections, also accordion-plaited and integral with the body portion, the said sections being adapted when not in use to fold down upon the body portion and when in use to be drawn together and to arch over and inclose the top portion of the typewriter.

In the drawings forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspectiveview showing the said cover in closed position. Fig. 2 is an end elevation showing the cover in closed position. Fig. 3 is a partial sectional view showing the cover in a folded or collapsed position.

In the drawings, A represents the base upon which the type-writer rests, and B an accordion-plaited portion, preferably rectangular in form, but always of such size and shape as to fit the machine with which it is to be used. This body portion is formed of any suitable flexible material and may be of pa per, cloth, or leather, and the upper portion of it is split vertically at each end, being cut downwardly to a point about midway the height of the entire cover, and to distinguish the two portions I shall term that portion B which is below the split portion the body and the section B formed by splitting the ends of the cover the dome sections.

The two ends and side of each dome-section B are secured to suitable angled frames B which may be of any light metal. When the two dome-sections B are opened out and also swung inwardly above the type-writer machine, the two frames B will lie face to face and are secured in such position by a spring-clamp C, carried by one of the frames B which clamp engages a shoulder or flange C, carried by the other frame.

When the cover is permitted to collapse, it folds upon itself, as shown in Fig. 3, inclosing the lower part of the machine, which rests upon the base-board within the folded cover.

The cover is locked in its folded position by means of spring-clamps D, carried by the base-board A and which engage the frames B as shown most clearly "in Fig. 3.

The advantages and conveniences of the construction herein shown and described will be obvious to those accustomed to use machines of this kind.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A type-writer cover comprising a flexible, collapsible body portion secured to the base of a type-writer and inclosing the same, the upper portion of said cover being split at the ends forming dome-sections arching over the top of the machine, when in use, and means for locking the said dome-sections to each other as and for the purpose set forth.

2. A type-writer cover comprising a rectangular body portionformed of a flexible, accordion-plaited material, the upper portion of said material being split at the ends, frames carried by said split portions and adapted to meet above the machine, and means for fastening said frames together.

3. A type-writer cover comprising a flexible accordion-plaited body adapted. to in close the sides of the type-writer, integral, flexible dome-sections carried by said body portion and adapted to arch over the typewriter, and means for fastening said domesections together at a point above the typewriter.

4. A type-writer comprising an accordion plaited portion adapted to inclose the sides of the type-Writer, integral accordion-plaited locking the fiames to each other, and means dome-sections, carried by opposite sides of for locking the frames to the base of the typethe said body and adapted to arch over the Writer when the cover is in a collapsed state.

space inolosed by the body portion, angled GEORGE RUSSEL BRIGHT. 5 frames secured to said dome-portions, the Witnesses:

frames being adapted to lie face to face When P. J. NEWLON,

the cover is in a closed position, means for H. H. DEAN. 

